{"id":4337,"date":"2023-12-06T10:23:43","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T06:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4337"},"modified":"2023-12-06T07:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T03:32:41","slug":"let-them-be-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4337","title":{"rendered":"Let them be young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday festivities this season have centered around striking a balance between what I can and cannot allow my nine-year-old son to experience. For example,\u00a0<em>8-Bit Christmas<\/em>? Yeah, he can handle that.\u00a0<em>South Park\u00a0<\/em>Christmas? Not so much.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;ll get it. I worry he&#8217;ll get it a little too well.<\/p>\n<p>Bloom&#8217;s off the rose with Santa Claus; there are only so many things left to keep sacred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holiday festivities this season have centered around striking a balance between what I can and cannot allow my nine-year-old son to experience. For example,\u00a08-Bit Christmas? Yeah, he can handle that.\u00a0South Park\u00a0Christmas? Not so much. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t think &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=4337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4338,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions\/4338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}